# How do I reduce the size of my movie file?

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**Created:** [July 25, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675 "2002-07-25T15:34:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rosewood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rosewood](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rosewood)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/1 "2002-07-25T15:34:55Z")

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Besides optimizing the file, is there any way to reduce the size of my movie. I use mostly letter morphing that leads to a menu, so I don’t think that I can split it into scenes. The site is:  
[http://rosewood32804.tripod.com](http://rosewood32804.tripod.com). and the movie loads when you hit the “Flash” hyperlink.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/2 "2002-07-25T17:42:08Z")

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I’d suspect you’re not compressing your sound. Export your movie (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S) and look at the sound compression settings. If you increase your compression to MP3 48KB/s Mono Fast you should still get ok sound without too much washout and a significant reduction in file size (about 15% of the original uncompressed wav)

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/3 "2002-07-25T23:41:53Z")

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:nerd: I appreciate the reply. My sound was already set at this rate- anything else that I can do. What is the deal with the compression tool that I saw advertised on one of the Flash community sites?

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/4 "2002-07-26T10:39:08Z")

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You could consider stripping out the music into separate swfs and loading these in as required. It won’t reduce the total size but may reduce the preload time.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/5 "2002-07-26T13:52:32Z")

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Again, thanks for the help. I am not sure how to link/open the second SWF.

Do I embed the second SWF into the first or put the action of opening the second SWF in the first frame of the first SWF?

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reduce-the-size-of-my-movie-file/675/6 "2002-07-26T17:49:43Z")

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Create a new fla with one keyframe containing a single soundfile and publish this at 48kb/s.

To load this swf into another swf use the loadMovie command e.g.

loadMovie(“music.swf”, 1) to load the music.swf

The number 1 here refers to a hierarchical level. By default the first swf that opens has the level 0 so by loading into level 1 you are loading in front of the first swf. To reference a swf in level one you use the syntax \_level1. (just as you’d use \_root.)You can also load into an instance of a movie clip if you prefer. The syntax is:

loadMovie(“music.swf”, mcInstanceName)

If you load into a mc then you target this movie clip to reference the swf you have loaded e.g mcInstanceName.play()